Health & Medicine
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Unintended consequences: Hegseth’s proposed controversial ‘low testosterone’ screen could flag 150,000 Army men. What happens next?
Roughly one in four male US Army soldiers could “fail” the annual testosterone tests Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered for ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sanitation and nutrition not vaccines’: The rejectionists’ latest false substitute for staying up to date on your shots
Has anyone ever heard matzoh ball soup referred to as Jewish penicillin? I’ve called it that my whole life. It ...
How the Trumpification of medicine is roiling — and maybe destroying—the American Diabetes Association
A quiet protest over a stack of photocopies has snowballed into a full-blown crisis at the American Diabetes Association, as ...
Viewpoint: November 13 is the long-predicted global doomsday. How a respected scientist got population growth catastrophe predictions so spectacularly wrong—fueling decades of junk science
According to the late Heinz von Foerster, Friday, November 13, 2026, is doomsday. Professor von Foerster and two colleagues at ...
As measles cases continue to surge, RFK Jr. blocks CDC scientists from issuing emergency alert warning unvaccinated pregnant women of significantly increased risks
Federal scientists have spent weeks trying to warn doctors about the dangers of measles during pregnancy, but the warning still ...
Who should police false online health claims? Younger adults blame their generation; older adults point to government, doctors and social media companies
Ask Americans who should clean up false health claims online, and the answer depends a lot on their age and ...
AI medicine breakthrough: Could ‘good viruses’ created by AI cure deadly diseases and infections?
For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a person with a ...
RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status
America may be about to lose the measles-elimination status it has held since 2000, and the verdict could double as ...
‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’
Our obsession with optimization has reached the fertility clinic, and some tech boosters want to push it much further — ...
As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure
On November 5, 2026, Wisconsin health officials announced that an infant has died of measles, the state’s first death of ...
Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim
Few drugs have been as disruptive to the field of medicine as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) mimics. Based on a naturally ...
4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy
Democrats are poised to take control of Congress, and some are vowing to do more than play defense against the ...
More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?
The midterms sent an unusual wave of doctors and scientists into office, and many shared the same backer: the 314 ...
Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot
In the wellness world, 'inflammation' has become the ultimate scapegoat for everything that ails the human body. But while immunology ...
$7.35 billion PFAS settlement: 3M to pay people who blame health problems on ‘forever chemicals’ phased out of firefighting foam for more than 20 years
3M will pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits from as many as 120,000 people who say groundwater tainted ...
Collagen supplements are not a wrinkle-reducing silver bullet, but they sure cost a lot
Collagen supplements won't iron out your wrinkles, at least not in any way the evidence convincingly shows, as Alice Klein reports ...
Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months
Democrats’ decisive sweep of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections will reshape the direction of federal health policy ...
Viewpoint: From Medicaid cuts to MAHA-backed anti-vaccine and chemical hysteria, voters reject Republicans’ science-skeptical agenda
Republicans who championed Medicaid cuts and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement had a rough Election Day. Democrats seized ...
Cataloging the RFK Jr.-MAHA crushing midterm collapse
Tuesday's midterms were a brutal night for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement, as ...
Viewpoint: “Positive eugenics”: Reviving a movement reviled and condemned for a century
Subway ads promising parents their “best baby” are a sign that eugenics has returned in a sleek, consumer-friendly form, argues ...
With technical barriers to human embryo editing falling, ethical concerns escalate
Heritable genome editing in human embryos is once again under intense scrutiny after the publication of an opinion piece in ...
Ever wonder why AI can so easily be duped into manufacturing health misinformation?
Generative AI isn't just one more pipe that health misinformation flows through. It shapes every stage of the problem, from ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s latest foray into junk science: Even Kennedy’s hand-picked NIH director balks at appointment of crackpot mental health director
RFK Jr. has passed over a highly regarded neuroscientist to lead the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), favoring instead ...
Viewpoint: ‘Just the flu’: Skipping your child’s flu shot could be a fatal mistake
In 2003, my life was completely shattered. My daughter, Alana, was 5½ years old when she died from complications of ...
The race to genetically engineer babies
A biotech entrepreneur has raised $30 million to launch Preventive, a public-benefit company dedicated to studying whether gene-edited babies can ...
Longevity scandal: The huckster who validates the ‘oldest people in the world’ claims
Many of the world’s “oldest people” may be far younger than the record books claim — and the man who ...
Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research
Washington is still spending about $200 billion a year on research, roughly what past administrations spent. But beneath that headline ...
